Garage-door holder



L. E. HEILIG GARAGE DOOR HOL-DER Fled April 8. 1925 Patented Dec. 8, 1925 UNITED STATES PATENT GFFQ.

LOUIS E. HEILIG, OF SIIERIVIAN', CALIFORNIA.

GAB-AGEDOQR I-ILDEE.

Applicaton fi1ed April 8, 1925.

T0 al! w/zom i2 muy concern:

Be it known that I, L0nrs E. HEILIG, a citizen 01" the United States, and resident of Sherman, Los Angeles County, State 0 Calii0rnia, have hwented new and useful mprovements in a Garage-Door Helder, of which the following is a specification.

'lhis inventien relates te hardware, and mare especially to a means for efl'eetively holding a garage door open.

It is an object te previde an extremely sin1ple, yet rugged and inexpensive device which may be easly attached to a swinging door in such a manner that the door may be opened without direct attention to the device, and an object is 110 provide a device \vhich will automatically come int0 holding eli'eet when the door has been opened to a desired or snfiicient angle to allow ingress 01 egress. lso, an object is to provide a 1neans which serves t0 held the door in open positi0n and prevents it from being opened bevond a necessary degree, as is sometimes desired.

An object is to provide a springless door helder, and to provide one which consists of het tw0 special elements, ea..ch of very simple character and yet providing a reliable locking action and a readily operative releasmg function.

ther ohjects and advantages \vll be made manifest in the ollowing speeiication 0' an embodiment 0 the invention; it heing nndeistood that m0diications, variations and adaptations may be reserted t0 with n the scope and spirit of the invention as lS here claimed.

l"igure 1 is a perspective 0i the appl1ed device shown on an open door.

Figure 2 is a plan showing the door closed.

In many cases in r0ws of garages, these are eonstructcd. s0 close that if the door of one garage is opened beyond an ang le of 90 degrees to the front wall, the door W1ll overlap the drveway of the next garage and this is eften very objeetionable. gain, doors 0f garages t end te blow elosed very easily when standing ont irom the garage front. My '1nvention is designed te eliminate these tronbles.

'lhe device comprises a prei'erably fiat link 2 pivoted at its inner end en a hanger, bolt er lag screvv 3 applied near the center of the header H in a doorframe. The enter end of the link is pivoted at 4 en the nearend of a lever arn1 5l1a"ing an elongated 1ek-shaft 6 Seral No. 21,596.

which is vertically hnng along the enter per tien and on the inner face of a door D, vertically hinged at 7 011 stnds of the doorframe. The rock-shait 6 is hung in snitable bearings 8.

The lever arm 5 is disposed near the top plane 01 the door s0 as to be l'ully clear of any vehicle running into or out of the garage.

The l0wer end of the rock-shaft has an ontleent handle 9 and this1nay 10e retained in an outer position by a friction means, as the bearings 8, or a rest 10.

When the door is pulled open in the usual way the link 2 and the lever arm 5 straighten out and are forced past the dead center alignment 01 deed center of pivot al. In snch position a stop finger 5 of lever 5 engages the link 2 and limits inward swing of the door nntil the handle 9 is pnlled around b v hand te break the dead leek of the link 2 and the lever 5. Ths allows thejointed ends thereo to bnckle in to the position shown in Fig. 2 as the door closes.

What is claimed is:

1. A hinged door helder 1"01 over-head adapti0n to a garage door and comprising knnckle-jointed link and arm members one of which is pivetally conneetible to a door frame header, and the other of which has a rock-shaft attachable vertically to the door in snch position that as the door opens te a desired angle the link and the arm elements straighten out and pass a dead center point, said link and arm members being at the upper end of the rock-shaft.

2. A hinged door helder comprising knuckle-jointed link and arm members one of which is pivotally connectible to a door frame header, and the other of which has a rock-shaft attachable vertically to the door in such position that as the door 0pens to a desired angle the link and the ar1n mernbers straighten out and pass a dead center point; the rock shaft having a handle on its lovver end, whereby the said shaft may be rocked t0 unlock the link and the arm, said handle being disposed out of plane of the arrn t0 permit the letter t0 move close to the door.

3. A hinged door holder comprising an elongated onepieee rockshaft having a handle onttnrned trom its lower end for read; access, and having a bent part forming a lever arm on its upper end dispseable 3'nst under a deorframe header and a l ink attach able at one end to the header and pivotallj connected to the swingng end ofthe a11 11 the 1atter havng a stop finger to hold the link and the ar1n just past deed center align ment.

4. The combnaton of a garage door having a vertca1 hinged edge upper and 10we1 bearngs adjacent he outer, swinging edge of the door and on the nside he1eof, {L Vertcal rock-sha't 1nounted in said bearings and hav.ing an unockng crankdmndle disposed about wast high on the door 1301 ready uccess, a link pmted at one end t0 the door frame header, and an elongated lever arm bent over head from the upper end of the rock-shaft 1nd attached to the swngng en of sad link, and mea:ns '01 lmtng move ment of the link and the lever ann past dead center thereof'.

5. A two-piece garage door holding device comprsng a 101111d-10d rock-shaft f01 rotation in bearngs and having at one end a short, angularly bent handle part and havng at its ether end en elongated lever arm forined of the red shat and havng ts 1e* 1note end flactened, and a link 1ne1nber pvofed on the said fiatrened end of the arm.

LOUIS E. HEILIG. 

